Gus Wildi's Bebopping Jazz Baby: Bethlehem Records
Fred Dellar, Rock's Backpages, March 2009
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1953. American TV companies were gearing up for the first programmes in colour, Playboy was cock-a-hoop about featuring Marilyn Monroe on the cover and in the centrefold of its first issue.......and in a New York studio, trumpeter and vocalist Jim Bright, together with vocalist Beaulah Swan and a band headed by ex-Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Lunceford arranger Sy Oliver, was cutting a single at Bethlehem Record's first recording session.
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